Wednesday, February 07, 2007

This essay will argue that...

I nearly always put my academic work in the passive voice, which can be tiresome. As Wittgenstein said:

“At some point you have to speak in the first person…”

(Wittgenstien, quoted in Rhees 1984:206)

Posted by Marc Lloyd at 4:33 am

2 comments:

Ros said...

It is also generally recognised that the passive voice ups the word count without adding value to the content. Which is why I rarely use it. Plus I also feel I want to express ownership of what I write - the passive voice seems a bit too easy to hide behind.

11:19 pm
Marc Lloyd said...

I see all that. But I'm not sure I really like "I" or "we". What do you go for, Ros? "I", I guess from what you've said. And "me"? Do you think this sounds too much like idiosynchrasy / personal opinion?

9:09 am

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